I've never realized that I would learn, understand, and realize a lot of things from being silent
-Anonymous
Quotations
Silence
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
-Ludwig Wittdenstein
"Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
You need to keep reminding yourself of the obvious: charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. It takes mastery to control silence.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
-Lawrence Durrell
"Justine"
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
-Thomas Merton
"No Man Is an Island"
When your heart is broken, don't go silent - speak to God in his own language...
-John Geddes
"A Familiar Rain"
Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.
-Nicholas Sparks
"Nights in Rodanthe"
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
-Pythagoras
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world’s sounds.
-Paul Brunton "Paul Brunton"
